Sion texted her and went into the operating room. This surgery would last long till the middle of the night. And he was going to take a nap in the office after the job.
Grabbing the phone, Aurora decided not to text him back. She couldn't find fault with him on this point. He'd never forgotten her father's death day. Every year on this day, he would go to the cemetery with her and mourn her father without being asked, and he would have got everything ready.
But they had fallen out. How could she count on him again? Anyway, she must learn to deal with it alone.
Sion's operation lasted till five in the morning. Nevaeh went in to assist him.
"It's dawn. Would you like to join me for breakfast?" Nevaeh went out of the operating room with him, shoulder to shoulder. It was a long night. But she was high in spirit when looking at Sion.
"I'm afraid not." Sion rubbed his neck a little and looked very tired and sleepy, "Today is Professor Robertson's death anniversary."
He was supposed to mourn him in the cemetery no matter who he was to him.
"Oh, I see."
Nevaeh nodded and asked, "Can I go with you?"
Nevaeh said again before Sion could say anything in reply, "I wasn't there in the final hours of his life and I didn't attend his funeral either. God. I feel so guilty. Anyhow, I should go mourn him. "
Sion paused his steps to glance at her, then said, "OK."
He returned to his office and checked his phone again and again.
Aurora didn't text him back.
He tried calling her but remembered she was still sleeping at this hour.
But, no matter what, she wouldn't forget her father's death anniversary.
Well, Aurora did remember it. But she just didn't want to go with Sion.
She got up early in the morning and went to the cemetery alone, trying to be the first one to mourn her father this year.
The green plants on the roadsides were covered in dew, which had wet her clothes when she passed. Aurora looked up towards the cemetery and went absentminded. After a while, she began walking up the steps. Every time she came here, she walked up from the foot of the mountain.
Meanwhile, a black luxury car stopped at the entrance of the cemetery. A tall man got out of the car, and he looked extremely serious in a tailor-made, black suit.
His assistant gave a bunch of begonia flowers to Albie Doyle and asked, "Mr Doyle, do you want me to go with you?"
Albie looked at the begonia flowers gloomily and said, "No. Just wait here."
Then he strode over into the cemetery and found Toby's gravestone quickly.
In the photo, Toby was wearing a very kind smile, looking like he was still alive.
"I'm back. How are you?"
Albie put the bouquet of begonias in front of his tomb, stared at his photo and looked sad.
"It took long for me to come back. You must be very disappointed, right?"
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